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meditation – the four Dhyānas to be precise – as preliminary stages to the psychological transformation that constituted the aim of his teachings. His followers, once again, introduced other forms of meditation which had little to do with this psychological transformation, and much more with the originally non-Buddhist aim of immobilising the mind.
Abbreviations:13)
AN
Anguttara-Nikaya, ed. R. Morris, E. Hardy, 5 vols., London 1885-1900 (PTS); vol. 6 (Indexes, by M. Hunt and C. A. F. Rhys Davids), London 1910 (PTS)
ANISt Alt- und Neuindische Studien, Hamburg
AS Asiatische Studien, Études Asiatiques, Bern BD I. B. Horner (transl.), The Book of the Discipline, Vinaya Pitaka,
vols. 1-6, London 1938-1966 (SBB) BSOAS Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of
London, London
BST
Buddhist Sanskrit Texts, Darbhanga
IndTib
Indica et Tibetica
JIABS
of Buddhist Studies,
Journal of the International Association Madison
Lankav(V) (Saddharma)lankavatārasūtra, ed. P. L. Vaidya, Darbhanga
1963 (BST 3)
13) Where possible I follow the Abkürzungsverzeichnis zur buddhistischen Literatur
in Indien und Südostasien insbesondere zu den Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für buddhistische Studien der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen, ed. Heinz Bechert, Vorabdruck, Göttingen 1988.
